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Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.
Alfred North Whitehead
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Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.
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The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals.
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It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
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Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure.
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I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren't.
Alfred North Whitehead
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I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning, or destroyed it altogether.
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Civilizations can only be understood by those who are civilized.
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Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.
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The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it.
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Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
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An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.
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Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
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Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.
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